Dr Cássio Peterka is deputy coordinator of the National Malaria Control Program and Aedes Transmitted Arbovirus Program at the Ministry of Health, Brazil. He began his career in malaria in 2010, as advisor in the Brazilian project funded by The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in Acre State, Brazil. In this role, he was responsible for monitoring and guiding local malaria control programs in municipalities of hyperendemicity: Mancio Lima, Rodrigues Alves, and Cruzeiro do Sul. Dr Peterka also served as research director at the Tropical Medicine Foundation at Tocantins State. In 2014, he served as a technical consultant for the National Malaria Control Program at the Ministry of Health, Brazil where he was responsible for information systems and epidemiological surveillance of malaria in Brazil.